Fox Sports 1 to launch in August.

GSPfan

Fox Sports 1 launches in America in August. It will show a variety of sports including UFC. It may also show The Ultimate Fighter aswell.
It looks like there is plans to have UFC fight nights on Wednesdays for at least 12 shows a year. Sounds good.

I'm still wondering if UFC will end up on Sky Sports. The timing of the launch of Fox Sports 1 is August and the tv rights for UFC in the UK and Ireland is supposed to be up in August. It might be a nice coincidence to launch it on both channels at the same time.

Mr. Manager

GSPfan wrote: »

Fox Sports 1 launches in America in August. It will show a variety of sports including UFC. It may also show The Ultimate Fighter aswell.
It looks like there is plans to have UFC fight nights on Wednesdays for at least 12 shows a year. Sounds good.

I'm still wondering if UFC will end up on Sky Sports. The timing of the launch of Fox Sports 1 is August and the tv rights for UFC in the UK and Ireland is supposed to be up in August. It might be a nice coincidence to launch it on both channels at the same time.

Apparently Dana has said this will never happen.

Gatling

Sky use to have ufc didn't they remember watching a couple of Tito Ortiz fights on sky going back a good few years mid to late 90's early 0's

sonic85

espn is going to bt in july isnt it. if the ufc doesnt end up on sky then where else is there for irish viewers to watch it

El Guapo!

I wonder will Fox Sports be released over here too. There'll be somewhere for us to watch it but there doesn't seem to be any rush by the UFC to get us sorted over this side of the Atlantic.

MrStuffins

Gatling wrote: »

Sky use to have ufc didn't they remember watching a couple of Tito Ortiz fights on sky going back a good few years mid to late 90's early 0's

Yeah, when UFC was in the Royal Albert Hall, they had it on PPV. Leading up to it, they had lots of highlights shows. It was pretty awesome.

leggo

When ESPN is taken over by BT, they're keeping one channel running here. So I presume, at least in the short-term, that channel will keep the rights to UFC. Though they may move it to BT too. Either way BT bought out all of their old rights in the deal. It's just a case of when the UFC deal in the UK was up.

GSPfan

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

Apparently Dana has said this will never happen.

Ive never heard that but thats not cause he doesnt want it to happen. Thats cause Sky have never shown an interest in promoting UFC and would want to put it on PPV which Dana knows would kill any growth. There may also be an issue with the WWE on Sky.

GSPfan

El Guapo! wrote: »

I wonder will Fox Sports be released over here too. There'll be somewhere for us to watch it but there doesn't seem to be any rush by the UFC to get us sorted over this side of the Atlantic.

Fox wont be released over here. Sure Sky and Fox are owned by Rupert Murdock so he'd be competing with his own company.

lertsnim

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

Apparently Dana has said this will never happen.

Dana says lots of things. No to women in the UFC for example